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[PATCH] xen-netfront: Delete rx_refill_timer in xennet_disconnect_backend()

From Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH] xen-netfront: Delete rx_refill_timer in xennet_disconnect_backend()
Date 2017-01-30 19:00 +0100
Message-ID <t5opc-6Tg-19@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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rx_refill_timer should be deleted as soon as we disconnect from the
backend since otherwise it is possible for the timer to go off before
we get to xennet_destroy_queues(). If this happens we may dereference
queue->rx.sring which is set to NULL in xennet_disconnect_backend().

Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/net/xen-netfront.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
index 8315fe7..722fe9f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -1379,6 +1379,8 @@ static void xennet_disconnect_backend(struct netfront_info *info)
 	for (i = 0; i < num_queues && info->queues; ++i) {
 		struct netfront_queue *queue = &info->queues[i];
 
+		del_timer_sync(&queue->rx_refill_timer);
+
 		if (queue->tx_irq && (queue->tx_irq == queue->rx_irq))
 			unbind_from_irqhandler(queue->tx_irq, queue);
 		if (queue->tx_irq && (queue->tx_irq != queue->rx_irq)) {
@@ -1733,7 +1735,6 @@ static void xennet_destroy_queues(struct netfront_info *info)
 
 		if (netif_running(info->netdev))
 			napi_disable(&queue->napi);
-		del_timer_sync(&queue->rx_refill_timer);
 		netif_napi_del(&queue->napi);
 	}
 
-- 
1.8.3.1

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[PATCH] xen-netfront: Delete rx_refill_timer in xennet_disconnect_backend() Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-01-30 19:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Delete rx_refill_timer in  xennet_disconnect_backend() Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2017-01-30 19:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Delete rx_refill_timer in  xennet_disconnect_backend() Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-01-30 19:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Delete rx_refill_timer in  xennet_disconnect_backend() Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2017-01-30 20:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Delete rx_refill_timer in  xennet_disconnect_backend() Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-01-30 20:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Delete rx_refill_timer in  xennet_disconnect_backend() Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-01-31 18:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Delete rx_refill_timer in  xennet_disconnect_backend() Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-02-02 00:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Delete rx_refill_timer in  xennet_disconnect_backend() Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2017-02-02 01:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Delete rx_refill_timer in  xennet_disconnect_backend() Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> - 2017-02-03 10:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Delete rx_refill_timer in  xennet_disconnect_backend() Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> - 2017-02-09 14:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] xen-netfront: Delete rx_refill_timer in  xennet_disconnect_backend() David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-02-10 20:00 +0100

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